NuGet

A NuGet package is essentially a set of DLLs, resources and a manifest that are stuffed into a a zip file with a .nupkg extension.

Tools

`dotnet.exe`	CLI
`nuget.exe`	CLI
Package Manager Console	Visual Studio on Windows
Package manager UI	Visual Studio on Windows
Manage NuGet UI	Visual Studio on Mac
MSBuild	Windows

Download and using nuget packages in PowerShell

I was somewhat successful trying to download nuget packages with PowerShell and then using it with a script like so:

$packageName = 'BouncyCastle'
$version     = '1.8.9.0'          # Leave empty for latest release?

$downloadURL = "https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/package/$packageName/$version"

invoke-webRequest $downloadURL -outFile $pwd/$packageName.zip

Extracting the required DLLs from the downloaded zip file

add-type -assembly System.IO.Compression.FileSystem
$zip = [IO.Compression.ZipFile]::OpenRead("$pwd/$packageName.zip")
[IO.Compression.ZipFileExtensions]::ExtractToFile($zip.GetEntry("lib/BouncyCastle.Crypto.dll"), "$pwd/$packageName.dll")

Later …

add-type -path "$pwd/$packageName.dll"
…
… [Org.BouncyCastle.Math.EC.AbstractFpCurve] …

NuGet

Tools

Download and using nuget packages in PowerShell

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